What words/phrases do you hate most? For me, I really don’t like someone saying “come on!” in professional setting. People who say this phrase seem to be always assuming you know what’s in their mind (we don’t!)

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Please do the needful

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I always replace it with “needy”. “Kindly do the needy”

People that say Hi/Hello and nothing else via messaging service

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Yes!!! This! I get a lot of "hi....." 's

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Any consulting speak, especially “the ask”. People have lost all touch with speaking properly and IMO, the more someone relies on consulting speak, the less hey actually know.

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First time I heard someone reference "the ask" circa 2017 I knew the end was nigh

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Boil the ocean and double click on that. I've got a visceral hatred of both those phrases, though thankfully I've only been exposed to the latter a relative few times.

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"do you have the capacity to take this on?"

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Introductory clauses like “it’s rather simple” or “it’s fairly obvious” when answering a question.

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Got 5 minutes to chat?

Narrator: It wasn't 5 minutes.

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I have doubts.

Do you have bandwidth….. oh also meeting cadence …..

Let’s level set the expectations!

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